An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 6620-00-650-4452
NSN 5996-01-644-9333
NSN 5925-00-196-3997
NSN 5920-01-302-7573
NSN 5835-01-157-5886
NSN 5990-01-284-3187
NSN 5925-00-986-8980
NSN 6620-00-004-5466
NSN 5975-00-240-8001
NSN 6130-01-167-5466
NSN 5910-01-521-4415
NSN 5935-00-106-8941